Live with ASI: Episode 3 Digest – November 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 3 Digest – November 2020

Live with ASI: Episode 3 Digest – November 2020

By : Jadaliyya Co-Editors

Live with ASI is a new monthly broadcast program that showcases recently published content from the Arab Studies Institute’s various branches. This content includes articles, reviews, pedagogical resources, podcasts, and more. Also featured in the broadcast are brand new interviews and discussions with various authors and contributors. In this episode, hosts Bassam Haddad and MK Smith discuss developments throughout the region regarding authoritarianism, photography and audiovisual narratives, historical perspectives, and more.

Interviews for this month are Muriam Haleh Davis with Carly A. Krakow, Reem Abou-El-Fadl with Bassam Haddad, Alain Gresh with  Bassam Haddad, and Pardis Mahdavi with Jacob Bessen. Guests are Adel Iskandar, Cat Haseman, Lizzy Galliver, Mekarem Eljamal, Carly A. Krakow, and Mohammad Abou-Ghazala

All of the materials mentioned in the broadcast are listed here, categorized by their themes. Also listed are additional recent materials we highly recommend, as well as recent and upcoming live events. Pieces that are relevant to multiple themes are listed under each applicable theme below. 


Jadaliyya
’s 10th Anniversary


This month marked ten years since Jadaliyya’s inception. To commemorate this very special milestone, our team hosted a Facebook Live event with sixteen of Jadaliyya’s Co-Editors, titled “Reflections On Ten Years of Jadaliyya,” where they shared their thoughtful reflections on the origins, growth, and goals of Jadaliyya.

We also published a piece titled “Jadaliyya Turns 10,” which gives readers a comprehensive overview of Jadaliyya’s development and its trajectory, from the outbreak of the 2011 Arab uprisings to the present. In this post, pages across Jadaliyya give a retrospective account of their journey over the last 10 years. 


Authoritarianism & Dissent


Carly A. Krakow interviewed Muriam Haleh Davis about her recent article on "Radio Corona International."


Spotlight: ASI in the Media


Palestine


Beyond Old/New Media Segment


Adel Iskandar joined Live with ASI again this month for the segment, “Beyond New/Old Media: Knowledge Production/Consumption After Covid-19.”

Historical Perspectives 


Spotlight: ASI Project Highlights


Community: Partners Feature


Bassam Haddad spoke to acclaimed journalist and public intellectual Alain Gresh about the French online publication he co-founded, OrientXXI. Alain discussed the type of content featured on this esteemed website, and what OrientXXI hopes to accomplish. The full interview is forthcoming and will be posted to StatusHour.com.

Gulf


Nasserism


Reem Abou-El-Fadl speaks with Bassam Haddad. 

September marked fifty years since the death of Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. His “July Revolution” of 1952 reshaped politics, economy, and cultural life of modern Egypt and profoundly influenced those of the Arab world, and his influence stretched throughout the “post-colonial” world. Nasser's legacies continue to be invoked and contested in contemporary Arab politics, and several Nasserist parties have endeavored to repurpose his political tradition. On this significant anniversary, Jadaliyya's Egypt page published a special series of three articles to critically engage with these legacies. Its editors invite fellow scholars and students of the Nasser era to send in further contributions in the same vein.


Pedagogy


Pardis Mahdavi spoke with Jacob Bessen about her Essential Readings on migraiton and the Gulf. 


Lizzy Galliver spoke about Scholars in Context.

 

Mekarem Eljamal, MESPI Managing Editor, shared exciting new updates about MESPI resources, including the Peer Reviewed Articles Review and MESPI Newsletter.


Recent Events Spotlight


Carly A. Krakow, Jadaliyya Special Projects Managing Editor and a producer of Live with ASI, joined to speak about two recent events hosted by the London School of Economics in partnership with ASI and Jadaliyya, and to share a preview of US election coverage. (And brought along birthday decorations for Jadaliyya's 10th!)


Photography & Audio-Visual Narratives


Grad Student Corner


Cat Haseman, ASI Social Media Coordinator, shared resources for graduate students in the new "Grad Student Corner" segement. 

Independent Content


Mohammad Abou-Ghazala, Live with ASI script writer, joined Bassam and MK in the studio to share some additional recently published pieces with the LWA audience.

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Inaugural Issue of Journal on Postcolonial Directions in Education

Postcolonial Directions in Education is a peer-reviewed open access journal produced twice a year. It is a scholarly journal intended to foster further understanding, advancement and reshaping of the field of postcolonial education. We welcome articles that contriute to advancing the field. As indicated in the editorial for the inaugural issue, the purview of this journal is broad enough to encompass a variety of disciplinary approaches, including but not confined to the following: sociological, anthropological, historical and social psychological approaches. The areas embraced include anti-racist education, decolonizing education, critical multiculturalism, critical racism theory, direct colonial experiences in education and their legacies for present day educational structures and practice, educational experiences reflecting the culture and "imagination" of empire, the impact of neoliberalism/globalization/structural adjustment programs on education, colonial curricula and subaltern alternatives, education and liberation movements, challenging hegemonic languages, the promotion of local literacies and linguistic diversity, neocolonial education and identity construction, colonialism and the construction of patriarchy, canon and canonicity, indigenous knowledges, supranational bodies and their educational frameworks, north-south and east-west relations in education, the politics of representation, unlearning colonial stereotypes, internal colonialism and education, cultural hybridity and learning  in  postcolonial contexts, education and the politics of dislocation, biographies or autobiographies reflecting the above themes, and deconstruction of colonial narratives of civilization within educational contexts. Once again, the field cannot be exhausted.

Table of Contents

  • Furthering the Discourse in Postcolonial Education, by Anne Hickling Hudson & Peter Mayo
  • Resisting the Inner Plantation: Decolonization and the Practice of Education in the Work of Eric Williams, by Jennifer Lavia
  • Neocolonialism, Higher Education and Student Union Activism in Zimbabwe, by Munyaradzi Hwami & Dip Kapoor
  • Reframing Anti-Colonial Theory for the Diasporic Context, by Marlon Simmons & George Dei 
  • Review of The Politics of Postcolonialism: Empire, Nation and Resistance, by Tejwant Chana
  • Review of Actionable Postcolonial Theory in Education, by Joseph Zanoni
  • AERA Postcolonial Studies and Education SIG: Business Meeting, by Joseph Zanoni 

[Click here to access the articles of the issue.]